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Elon Musk says Tesla will be "winding down" Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027 to free up capacity for increased production of its Cybercab robotaxi. CNBC reports: The Cybertruck is exclusively produced at the company's plant in Texas alongside the Tesla Model Y and two-seat Cybercab, which Musk has touted as a crucial product for the automaker moving forward. Musk did not say whether the company would produce the Cybertruck at a different facility, but he later responded to a user on X who called the update an "end of an era" and said the Cybertruck was the "best vehicle Tesla has ever made." "True, but the Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time," Musk said.

The Cybertruck and its polarizing design gained a niche following, but it did not achieve mass-market sales, despite Musk's pre-launch prediction that annual sales would eventually total 250,000. "Trucks have been the same for a very long time," Musk said when the truck was unveiled in 2019. "Like 100 years. Trucks have been basically the same. We want to try something different." While Tesla does not break out its sales by model or region, Cox Automotive estimated sales of the Cybertruck last year at 20,237 units in the U.S., down 48% from 38,965 in 2024. Thank you Slashdot reader Dan Posluns for sharing the news.

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  • They seems popular enough. It's not something I would buy but there's like five in my neighborhood alone.

    • Re:Surprised (Score:5, Insightful)

      by fropenn ( 1116699 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:16PM (#66413222)

      They seems popular enough. It's not something I would buy but there's like five in my neighborhood alone.

      Just because there's a cluster in your neighborhood does not mean it is selling nationally. They only sold around 20,000 total in all of 2025. The design is Elon Musk's dream about what a truck should be rather than what customers actually want. And many claims Elon made about what the truck is and what it can do were outright lies.

      The truck market is huge and incredibly competitive. It's not a market where Tesla can win and entering it was a strategic error. But, there does not appear to be anyone on the Tesla board who will tell Elon 'no'.

      • Re:Surprised [but will not be missed] (Score:5, Interesting)

        by shanen ( 462549 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:45PM (#66413320) Homepage Journal

        Funny news but funnier if it's the beginning of the end of Elon's string of lucky throws. Oh wait. I forgot about his wagers on a certain recent election.

        For whatever it's worth, many local Tesla owners have become so embarrassed by Musk's antics that they have pulled the logos off the hoods of their cars. Never been a lot of them around here, but they are distinctive enough to spot coming as I'm walking around, but now I have to look quick to try to check the back of the car to confirm what it was.

        And I've never seen a Cybertruck in real life. Recently I've started noticing increasing numbers of that Chinese electric brand...

      • Re:Surprised (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Rei ( 128717 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:17PM (#66413372) Homepage

        There was plenty of interest in the beginning**, and the electric truck market really doesn't have good competition for a given price point. The problems were:

        1) The price shot up heavily
        2) The stats and capabilities went down
        3) Musk went hard-right, and rightly or wrongly the Cybertruck became seen as a symbol of being MAGA.

        These things together pushed away ~90% of prospective buyers. Combined with the fact that the Cybertruck's production line was unique, as well as being a generation back, and it made it hard for Tesla to justify owning it.

        ** - Including from me. Beyond the stats-for-the-price point as introduced, I liked the engineering behind the design. If you want to make it rugged, that implies a thick skin. So make it an exoskeleton to bear the internal loads. Want to maximize strength while minimizing the mass? Resist torsional loads with a braced cantilever design (the triangular rear). Which, with a retracting tonneau, creates a very long, gradual rear taper, allowing detached air (from the angles necessitated by an exoskeleton) ample time to retract and minimizing the drawn wake. On and on - from an engineering perspective, there was a lot of great stuff that appealed to me. But little of that ended up staying. The final design hangs the (thinner) exterior metal onto a frame just as dead mass. The big raft of changes led to mass growth, cost growth, and range decline (despite advancing battery tech and pricing). And of course, I'm not super eager for Elon to end up with any of my money these days. Another family member had also been interested, and also cancelled.

        • Bumper Sticker (Score:2, Interesting)

          by AlanObject ( 3603453 )

          3) Musk went hard-right, and rightly or wrongly the Cybertruck became seen as a symbol of being MAGA.

          I was driving in Palo Alto recently and spotted a Cybertruck with a perfectly applied bumper sticker saying "Shut The Fuck Up Elon". I couldn't get my phone out of my pocket fast enough to get a picture and it disappeared in traffic.

          It was good to see something like that after all the internet images with Cybertrucks in a gaudy MAGA/Trump wrap which is where that reputation came from.

          • The rep came from Leon supporting Trump, not for any other reason whatsoever.

        • Re:Surprised (Score:4, Interesting)

          by dfghjk ( 711126 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:28PM (#66413723)

          Interestingly, right after the Cybertruck was announced I predicted that it would be the greatest embarrassment in the history of automobiles.

          You see, you fell for the lies, I did not. The Cybertruck was always going to be failure, starting with the fact that its cost and range were predicated on Musk actually believing that 4680 cells would have 5x the energy density of 2170 when they are merely 5 times the size and offer worse performance. The evidence of Musk's ignorance has been there all along, people just didn't want to see it...until he "went hard right". But Musk didn't go hard right, he was a racist sociopath all along, it just became obvious more recently.

          • I took one look at it and knew it would be a short-lived load of shit. It was a clumsy behemoth that wouldn't fit in 90% of the garages out there. Seriously, there was no fuckin way it would ever succeed.

            • It takes up the same space as a half-ton. I will say the odd shape is off-putting.

              It should have been more like the Slate or a Wrangler where one could add a back part and use it like a truck or a SUV.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Rei ( 128717 )

            predicted that it would be the greatest embarrassment in the history of automobiles.

            Said about every single Tesla model and non-vehicle product, and about the company as a whole, every time, by millions of people, for its entire history. That's hardly a badge to pin on yourself unless you were also saying that the Roadster, Model S, Model X, Model 3, and Model Y, and grid batteries would be massive successes.

            Also, don't confuse "putting down a refundable $100 reservation" with "prognosticating about the f

        • Yeah, the stainless steel is kind of a joke given the move from an exoskeleton to a body on mega-casting.

          The political impact is similarly a huge failure.

          A lot of promise just fizzled out.

        • I think the specs and the engineering are related.

          It was supposed to be a new way to make light stiff cars.

          It ended up being a unibody with wedges glued on. The look was a product of the engineering originally.

          In the end it was a weirder looking Ridgeline.

        • You forgot that they're not actually a truck by any reasonable metric, whistlindiesel broke the cast aluminum frame while towing, the gas pedals jammed because they used dish soap to slide on the rubber cover over the pedal, they're ugly as fuck and most certainly didn't hit elon's asinine "sub-five-micron-accuracy" demand, they rust, the panels are all wavy and look horrible because it's nothing but flat facets, the roof trim would fall off, the panels are not actially structural and there's plastic and al

      • Elonsel (Score:2, Interesting)

        by abulafia ( 7826 )
        The Space Nazi sold ~70,000 trucks [electrek.co] in roughly 3 years, after building out a production line to build 125K/year.

        They had tons of hi-visibility production problems because of all the dipshit decisions they made; I seriously doubt the full retail cost of 70K of those even grossed the development costs, let alone came close to breaking even overall.

        It was the Crystal Pepsi of vehicles. Battlefield Earth in truck form.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Quila ( 201335 )

        The design was one he picked from several presented. The original intent was for a monocoque (stressed skin) design, and the funny shape was necessary for that design.

        Somewhere along the line they figured they needed to go back to a standard design to make it, and they should have killed it right there. But they didn't.

        Of course, if they had killed it, the EDS crowd would be screaming "MUSK LIED reeeeeee!"

        But at least it introduced total 48V, gigabit rings for communications, and true steer by wire.

        • But at least it introduced total 48V, gigabit rings for communications, and true steer by wire.

          Yes, I can't count how many trips to the supermarket left me wishing that I had "gigabit rings for communications" and "true steer by wire" in my car. All my neighbors have it, even the poor ones!

      • there are a lot of cybertrucks sold in Los Angeles, but they seem like cutesy toys for guys who really would never have even bought a small Tacoma in their entire lives, it's just the cachet of nouveau riche kiddos

        as for the vehicle being a truck, I saw only one in which someone tried to use it like a utility pickup truck, various lawn tools and a ladder were loaded on it, and the ladder had to be a some weird angle because the bed is so short... it looked totally ridiculous.

        Elon makes a mistake from

    • Re:Surprised (Score:5, Informative)

      by Dan Posluns ( 794424 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:17PM (#66413224) Homepage

      I'm guessing "highly noticeable" isn't the same as "popular". According to responses on his post:
      - Factory built to manufacture 125k a year
      - 70k sold over 3 years
      - $2 billion in R&D, $100 million in gross sales

      Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow.

      • - 70k sold over 3 years
        - $2 billion in R&D, $100 million in gross sales

        $100,000,000 gross / 70,000 vehicles = $1428.57 each?

        I don't particularly care for the look of the cybertruck, but if I had known they cost less than $1.5k each, I might've bought one.

      • - 70k sold over 3 years

        Does that number include the 1300 Cybertrucks that Elon got SpaceX to buy from Tesla so he could make his Q4 numbers last year look better?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

      This is probably main part of the problem.

      "It looks cool and seems popular, but it's not something I would buy" is likely the most popular opinion on that thing. And that doesn't generate sales needed to justify the cost vs alternatives.

      (In before Elon haters and Elon fanboys ripping and tearing into each other.)

      • It looks cool if you think slapping gold veneer on everything is also tasteful.

      • "It looks cool and seems popular, but it's not something I would buy" is likely the most popular opinion on that thing. And that doesn't generate sales needed to justify the cost vs alternatives.

        I believe the most popular opinion on that thing is "it looks like a dumpster on wheels, but at least it's fabulously expensive". There are several in my neighborhood, and I'm always shocked when I see them. Who would buy these bizarre artistic statements? Picasso might have enjoyed them.

        • I asked my neighbor who has one a polite version of "Why did you buy it?". He said it makes him feel like a superhero. He volunteered that the suspension is software controlled so you can dial in the kind of handling you like.
          But I can't really answer your question, being far from the target market.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

            The cybertruck is quite different from both the usual car and truck design. If you want a vehicle that stands out and you don't want to buy a two seater hypercar, it's pretty much your only choice.

          • I asked my neighbor who has one a polite version of "Why did you buy it?". He said it makes him feel like a superhero.

            Your neighbor is so shallow that he probably disappears when he turns sideways. He undoubtedly fantasizes about saving a hot chick from some evil bad guys with the help of his manly Cybertruck.

      • As much as the cybertruck costs if i had that kind of cash on hand i would sooner buy a Chevy, Dodge or Ford pickup truck

      • Re:Surprised (Score:5, Insightful)

        by karmawarrior ( 311177 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:00PM (#66413430) Journal

        I've seen them in RL, and I have to agree with the sibling post who says the kind of person who'd think they look cool would be the same that thinks putting gold veneer on everything makes looks elegant. They're just... gaudy with no redeeming qualities in terms of design, the kind of thing a 9 year old would draw as his concept of what a really cool car looks like. It's just weird, angular, and large. It looks as cool as a skip. Which not coincidentally its compared to on a regular basis.

        The good news is between Ford and Slate, the options for something that does what the Cybertruck says, but has a utilitarian design, looks decent, and is actually affordable, are coming. Whether there's a market is another issue given the disproportionately high number of pick-up drivers who are likely swayed by culture war crap. But they're coming for those who want the advantages of EVs without having to drive a sedan.

      • I gotta say - with regards to the Cybertruck, "It looks cool and seems popular" is not a sentiment I've seen or heard anywhere but on this site.

        What I DO hear, quite often, is variations on the following theme: "That thing is butt-ugly!"

    • Re: Surprised (Score:2, Interesting)

      by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

      They aren't. Leon had to have SpaceX buy a bunch of them to bail out Tesla.

    • me too. Still reminds me of the Warthog in Halo, which I think is pretty cool.

      I didn't have one, but I like the stainless steel, drive by wire, and four wheel steering and vehicle to grid. all cool features.

      But full size electric pickups just haven't gotten much uptake in general. IDK if Tesla ever made money on them, but Ford, Chevy, and rivian certainly haven't.

      maybe in another 10 years

    • Most one the ones I see have a vinyl wrap advertising a business. One fake redneck bar has a wrap to make it look wooden. https://maps.app.goo.gl/JRtd4F... [app.goo.gl]

      Nothing says "country" like a stainless steel electric truck designed by the worlds richest man.

      • Most one the ones I see have a vinyl wrap advertising a business. One fake redneck bar has a wrap to make it look wooden. https://maps.app.goo.gl/JRtd4F... [app.goo.gl]

        Nothing says "country" like a stainless steel electric truck designed by the worlds richest man.

        Still chuckling as I write this. If you're ever looking to update your sig, you could do far worse than the last sentence of your comment.

      • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

        by SoCalChris ( 573049 )

        Most one the ones I see have a vinyl wrap advertising a business.

        I absolutely love when businesses advertise on these pieces of shit. It makes it incredibly easy to know who not to give my money too.

    • It isn't. Leon had to have SpaceX buy a bunch of them to bail out Tesla.

      I posted this comment already but it got modded down, so I'm posting it again to troll the trolls with facts.

      #deportElon

      • I expect this is why it got wound down. Most of the photo's of the texas spacex facility have rows of these things around, probably for corp purposes as one of the photo's I saw had a sign posted in the lot that said "Cybertrucks Only". They probably can't use any more at spacex, their primary customer. And with the coming merger, it won't pump up sales anymore since it would be a completely internal company transaction after the merge.

    • I've seen two or three in my neighbourhood but:

      1. The neighbourhood is heavily MAGA (Florida, East Coast but North of Palm Beach)
      2. When you think of all the cars you see, you're going to notice the Cybertruck because of what it is, but it's not like I'm seeing them every day. There's a very good chance I've seen more than 50% of the Cybertrucks in the area, making up some relatively small percentage of the population here as a whole.

      To put it another way, if the area I live in has 20-40,000 people in it, a

    • Most places aren't chudcentral
    • The summary: "While Tesla does not break out its sales by model or region, Cox Automotive estimated sales of the Cybertruck last year at 20,237 units in the U.S., down 48% from 38,965 in 2024."

      You: It sure is surprising they're stopping production of these popular vehicles

  • The real problem is that Cybertruck wasn't sufficiently ugly to become a cultural icon, in a way Gaudà did.
  • Because of the ridiculously bad design the slightest fender bender means they get totaled by Insurance because it's too difficult and expensive to fix them. You will probably see them occasionally at car shows as an oddity like a kind of Nazi DeLorean but other than that it won't be like how you can still see PT cruisers as being driven daily by people.

    What I like best about the cybertruck is that it's the first thing Elon Musk designed rather than just paying somebody to do it for him and it was an un

  • "Trucks have been the same for a very long time," Musk said

    There's a reason for that. People have figured out what works and what does not. And, until recently, being a fashion statement wasn't high on most truck buyers lists. Elon would have been wise to do a bit more market research.

    • Re:Prior Art (Score:4, Interesting)

      by dgatwood ( 11270 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:16PM (#66413370) Homepage Journal

      "Trucks have been the same for a very long time," Musk said

      There's a reason for that. People have figured out what works and what does not. And, until recently, being a fashion statement wasn't high on most truck buyers lists. Elon would have been wise to do a bit more market research.

      The problem with the Cybertruck isn't its design. The problem is its cost. It costs almost twice as much as an F350, with half to two-thirds of the bed capacity, half the towing capacity, and as little as half the range.

      If CyberTruck sold for $35,000, people would buy it, because it would be competing head-to-head with the F150.

      If Elon had shipped the battery extender that was originally promised, had made long bed versions so that you'd still have actual bed capacity remaining after installing it, and had doubled the towing capacity, people would buy it.

      But instead, he delivered something that was a fraction of what was promised, at a quarter of the value per dollar of the competition, and then wondered why his little "I'm a far-right winger" stunts failed to attract sales from the rural South. It was never about his politics. It was always about value for the money. All his stunts really did was cost the company sales in California.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dfghjk ( 711126 )

        Right, plus the design sucked. Let's not forget the recalls for the gas pedal that got stuck depressed under a floor mat or a front trunk actuator that broke fingers or the fact that you can't take a Cybertruck through a car wash without permanently disabling it.

        And the cybertruck didn't merely fail to deliver on promises, those promised were based on Elon Musk's unbelievable ignorance. The low cost and 500 mile range were based on Elon thinking his new batteries were 5x denser when they were in fact 5x L

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by Slayer ( 6656 )

      And, until recently, being a fashion statement wasn't high on most truck buyers lists. Elon would have been wise to do a bit more market research.

      If you look at modern trucks, they are very much fashion statements. 30 years ago trucks were basically sedans with the rear converted for maximum transport capacity. In the meantime they have grown massively in size (without adding much utility), and look like kinder garden kid's dream.

    • Re:Prior Art (Score:4)

      by ceoyoyo ( 59147 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:33PM (#66413564)

      And, until recently, being a fashion statement wasn't high on most truck buyers lists.

      Bullshit. There are some people who buy trucks because they need a vehicle that carries lots of cargo. Farmers, contractors, etc. There are more people (in the US) who buy a truck because they like trucks.

    • Re:Prior Art (Score:4, Insightful)

      by shilly ( 142940 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:53PM (#66413590)

      Surely you cannot actually believe that “until recently, being a fashion statement wasn't high on most truck buyers lists”?

      Lift kits, absurdly large wheels, ever more aggressive styling, rolling coal, bull bars, exaggerated air intakes, enormous grilles, brush guards, armoured bumpers, wide stances, protruding wheels, deep dish wheels, blacked out everything, roof mounted light bars, and on and on and on this is fashion for men who belive they’re immune to fashion, because they’re dumb as a rock.

  • The vision (Score:5, Interesting)

    by AlanObject ( 3603453 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:31PM (#66413280)

    Usually the engineers and project managers that work at Tesla take Musk's ideas and either make them work or convince him that there is so little chance of it working that it isn't even worth trying. That didn't happen for Cybertruck.

    Of course it remains popular to snicker and jeer when Musk fails, which is fine if that is what gets you through the day. The side effect is it suppresses what the original project directives were.

    I recall Musk talking about the Cybertruck early on, which was supposed to be a low cost offering for its class. In the range of $30,000. His idea was to create a truck with material that was sourced by SpaceX to build rockets (stainless steel), and build an exoskeleton with simple and cheap cut-and-fold operations and minimal welding and no paint. The guts and drivetrain of the truck would sit inside the exoskeleton. Going by the back-of-the-napkin design it sounded achievable. He also made it clear he knew that not everyone would like the dtesign but he wanted to put forth a radical new look. That part worked, at least.

    "Sounding" achievable isn't the same as actually achievable and Musk should have done more homework up front. The engineers had to do one modification after another to the original idea in order to make things street legal and soon you ended up with what you now see in the parking lot. They should have chopped the project off after they knew that the original cost goals would be blown through but for whatever reason they didn't.

    They should have had something like the Slate Truck. Instead they ended up building the Queen Mary.

    • That didn't happen for Cybertruck.

      The engineers and project managers wanted to keep getting a paycheck? Elon has tended to fire people who tell him no.

    • OTOH and entirely tangentially, the Slate seems like a decent mini truck. Anemic range and AFAIK didn't *quite* hit the price point (how many things conceptualized in 2022 still hit their price points in 2026?) but it really is a clever idea. If they can sell well, there might be some interest from larger automakers who might apply some scaling benefits as well....

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dfghjk ( 711126 )

        It's a terrible idea. The core Slate idea is to make an undesirable product that buyers will have to modify, then get ongoing profits on upsells later. There is absolutely NO evidence that the Slate is actually a good truck, it is certainly the ugliest since the Cybertruck with even a worse interior. The Slate isn't even painted, it has plastic panels that don't even have a texture to hide road rash. The Slate is designed to create a problem for buyers that requires additional expense. And who wants to

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by RobinH ( 124750 )
      I understand the "we're all supposed to take every opportunity to hate Elon" thing, but your premise doesn't hold up when checked against the facts. The whole genius of Tesla was that it was the first company that made electric cars that *looked* like regular cars, and that people wanted to actually buy, and he's proven to be quite good at business decisions so I have a hard time believing he didn't have a hand in that. The cybertruck was an anomaly. But if you look at the problem of electric pickups, th

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by shilly ( 142940 )

      It was only ever street legal in the US and a couple of other places. Everywhere else, it was recognised as extremely dangerous for vulnerable road users, not least due to those angles you mention.

    • I actually thought the design looked so cool at the time. It was outrageous. My opinion soured on the look when, like you said, it turned into an overpriced pile of junk and it was being bought by the most obnoxious rich assholes.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      Keep lying to yourself, sooner or later Elon Musk will prove himself to be a genius again.

      ""Sounding" achievable isn't the same as actually achievable and Musk should have done more homework up front. "

      LOL Elon Musk does homework up front for one reason only, to plan on his next fraud scheme. Elon Musk thought 4680 cells offered 5x the energy density of 2170 cells, no amount of homework would fix that stupidity.

  • Don't drive one into the water (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Arrogant-Bastard ( 141720 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:35PM (#66413288)
    (puts on rescue instructor hat briefly) We'll never get you out -- because the vehicle's design is completely hostile to rescuers. It's so bad that I've trained my students to think very seriously about whether they even want to try, because there's such a low probability of success and such a high probability that rescuers will be injured/killed. This is markedly different from pretty much every other vehicle on the road and is a reflection of Musk's utter incompetence: he clearly never bothered to think about the "features" he designed in beyond the level of a 12-year-old drawing cars on scrap paper. Nor did he bother to read the literature or consult with experienced people; it's 100% the product of his bloated ego.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by shilly ( 142940 )

      What aspects of the design make it so hostile?

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by dfghjk ( 711126 )

        Where is the door handle you pull in an emergency to get a door open? There's a hundred years of experience on how to do that, that's why Tesla's don't.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      Musk fundamentally believes that everyone else is incompetent and everything the industry does is bad. That's why Tesla has to gratuitously change EVERYTHING and why, because of absurd Tesla valuations, the auto industry has regressed so much recently. Sure, rescuing people trapped in a Tesla is much harder, but Elon says you shouldn't even use a brake pedal. Why? Because Tesla can't blend braking and regen.

      It is hard to find a single thing a Tesla does well beyond the basic fundamentals of the electric

  • Yes, it's useless as a truck and the design sucks, but there is a lot of great tech inside like the 48V wiring and control system

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      Elon didn't invent 48V, it is well established in cars. Elon deleted the 12V, then claimed his innovation was what others were already doing.

      Not one buyer should give a shit about 48V, the fanboys love to regurgitate it though. If you want to install your own electrical gear, 48V is not your friend.

      • I give at least one half of one shit about 48V. It's not going to make me buy a DumpsterTruck, but I do think it's inevitable eventually and is also a good idea in general. You will have to use some sense when installing equipment, and not just splice into circuits you don't belong in... but that was really true anyway. There's few right ways and many wrong ways to make modifications and additions to automotive electrical systems.

  • It's pretty much illegal everywhere (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Tomahawk ( 1343 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:06PM (#66413358) Homepage
    He can really only sell it in the US. Most other countries have much stricter safety laws. Which begs the question -- why are US safety laws so lax?

    • Re:It's pretty much illegal everywhere (Score:5, Interesting)

      by karmawarrior ( 311177 ) on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:18PM (#66413460) Journal

      > Which begs the question -- why are US safety laws so lax?

      It's more different priorities. The US (and Canada) has safety laws (and indeed a whole policy on roads) oriented towards protecting the driver and passengers. While the rest of the world tends to consider the lives of those outside of a car to be more important.

      Of course, some times those policies will mesh and vehicles can be made that match both priorities. Other times, they won't. And other times, there's no reason why a vehicle can't be built that considers both priorities to be important, but for whatever reason, the designer decides to focus on one market at the expense of the others.

      The Cybertruck is probably not the only design that can't be exported to Europe for the same reasons, and there are reasons why most car manufacturers have "US" and "non-US" portfolios so different they'll slap the same name onto two entirely different vehicle designs knowing that there's no confusion because one is intended for Americans, and the other not.

      • Cybertruck due its weight is not feasible to quality for the B license. 300-350kg away from weight cap just with driver, and even worse with the bigger battery?
        Aside from the FUD, by this point we are starting to see Silverados being sold as new BEV vehicles in EU, which is a very apples to apples vehicle. And its being sold as C1 license, due weight. Same with F150 models. Both F150 and Silverado are being sold for the same reason some companies bought 3's or NV200's as company vehicles: Fuel cost is impor

      • While the rest of the world tends to consider the lives of those outside of a car to be more important.

        No it's not "more" important, it's just "in addition to". It's not like European cars are more dangerous for the occupants than American ones, but it is absolutely correct to say they aren't designed to inflict as much damage as possible to pedestrians.

        Banning angular sharp edges on the outside of a car doesn't mean you don't care about the car's occupants (though you may not care about the size of the driver's micro-penis as much as they want you to).

  • It looks like the results of a Saturday afternoon at the set-building workshop of a middle school stage production of Back to the Future. It looks like the final tank you encounter in the original Battlezone video game. Elon must have drawn it on a napkin in crayon while deep in a k-hole, and said "Make this."

    • "It looks like the final tank you encounter in the original Battlezone video game"

      I had the exact same thought the first time I saw one.

  • Everything else aside, the cybertruck is the worst looking vehicle ever made. It makes the PT cruiser look like art that should be hung in a gallery. It looks like what a 9 year old with Lego thinks a spaceship should look like. It's like they forgot every last bit of nuanced aesthetics learned in the last hundred years. WTF.

  • I'm looking forward to test-driving a Ford Fathom as soon as they're available.

    (the name is certainly weird though)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by schwit1 ( 797399 )

      Exactly. The large truck market is owned by the big 3. The country wants something smaller but the chicken tax [realtruck.com](no joke) won't permit its importation.

      I suspect a better result if Tesla had made a truck the size of the 1995 Toyota pickup.

  • Might have bought one if they did.
  • After that amazing successful launch when Elon smashed the unbreakable window with metal ball?

    The CyberTruck is what happens when design genius Elon gets his way. He also improved the US government spending budgets so much.

    If he carries on like this he's got a good chance to run for office as a republican. He already had a relationship with Epstein which seems to be a requirement.

  • Buy one at the most bargain-basement price you can, then drain any fluids, disconnect everything, and properly mothball it. Maybe even buy two, because in 10 years the number of Cybertrucks still in daily use in any form will be in the double digits at best.

    So, in 10 years (maybe sooner) you'd be able to sell a "mint condition Cybertruck w/ zero miles" to some nutball collector with more brains than money for 5 or 10 times what you paid. Maybe even more, there are some seriously rich crazies out there and t

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